Congrats Yahoo! OpenID gets another RP

Just a quick shout-out to Yahoo! for releasing in beta OpenID relying party support for Yahoo! Stores. Now new store customers can sign-in and purchase products using an identity they already have. Check out this blog post for more details.

OpenID, AOL, Yahoo!, Relying Party

Webfinger enabled for @aol.com

Being able to discover meta-data about an identity (via the identity's identifier) is an important piece of the Federated Social Web. Evan Prodromou recently wrote...

An important part of identity is addressability – having a machine readable address that computers and people can use to find you, and only you.

As a way to enable "addressability" for AOL users, Webfinger discovery is now available for all email addresses in the aol.com domain. Discoverable information includes the identity's OpenID provider and profile URL.

webfinger, OpenID, AOL